Fight the Vaccine Myths

Texas Medicine will report in March that Texas physicians reacted strongly to charges by the British Medical Journal that British physician Andrew Wakefield, MD, falsified data and committed an "elaborate fraud" in his 1998 report that linked the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to a new syndrome of autism and bowel disease. Some of them charge that Dr. Wakefield's actions frightened parents into refusing to have their children immunized, leading to illnesses that could have been prevented.